Meeting with Mathias

In our meeting we talked about how to improve my journal writing. We came up with two things that I can do better:

-apply specific points from research; quotes, methods in project specification (ex. method on how many people are entering at the same time - where you got it from)

-Specification - take points from journal (how many people will be in it) <-- mainly for Johanna

Meeting!

Today we had a meeting with some participants of our flash mob in Stadsparken. Not many people showed up, only 15, but that is NOT all of the participants. Here's our plan for the meeting:

POINTS TO TALK ABOUT

How to get there 17 DECEMBER

• Meet at 1:30 at stadsparken
• Take separate ways to stortorget

Costumes

• red santa hat
• DONT WEAR BEFORE YOU JOIN hint; be sneaky
• Keep wearing after the dance

Pay attention

• Listen for the music to start
• Be located around stortorget, acting as if shopping, etc.

Dance coreography

• 1st round: Johanna Lotta starts the dance LOOK CONFUSED
• 2nd round: Line, Viktor, Ingrid, Henrik, Madina, Emilia, Sara
• 3rd round: everybody join!
• Dance is total 6 times

Questions?

Practice dance :) 

Here's how good it went:

Source for dance

The original minds behind the santa claus dance are a group of people called Team Marco Polo.Questions needed to be answered:

• Why did they do this dance?
• What was their aim of thought for it?
• What is team marco polo?

http://www.teammarcopolo.com/


About Marco Polo: Team Marco Polo is produced by a creative team that has developed bestselling media for popular kids’ shows like Beakman’s World and Bill Nye, The Science Guy. They have a website (www.teammarcopolo.com), a facebook site, a youtube channel, a twitter account; everything to be available to everyone! This is how they describe themselves on Facebook:

Team Marco Polo is a family travel show that takes you on a hilarious, informative and offbeat tour of the world. Join Marco and a host of characters as they parade through the rich tapestry of culture, arts, language, and history that has made the world such an exciting place to live in! Take a tip from Marco: "To learn about the world is to learn about yourself, so keep exploring!!"

Based on my research, I can say that Team Marco Polo is:

• An entertainment show/website for kids
• A team who entertains along with teaching
• A travel guide to the world (they show clips where they travel to places, and educate kids on the streets by asking questions about other countries' location, etc)

Here is an example of a fun blog entry that is a true fact from their website:

History Schmistory: November 28. “Someone should invent the windshield.”

Monday, November 28, 2011 by teammarcopolo in History, History Schmistory, Learn! 

1895: The first American automobile race takes place along a 54 mile stretch between Chicago’s Jackson Park and Evanston, Illinois. In a little over 10 hours, Frank Duryea wins by a two hour nose. Here we see the thrill of their victory…

This is the first entry posted on their blog. This video doesn't really teach me much, but makes me wonder who Oschter Haws is. It's entertaining!

Who is Oschter Haws?

Tuesday, March 10, 2009 by teammarcopolo in Videos 

The Easter Bunny Song. Find the Easter Eggs!

Can you find all the Easter eggs?

Reflection of progress so far..

Now it's been quite some time since I started organizing my flash mob. 

Things I have done well in the progress so far:

1. Keeping people updated so they don't forget about the event
2. Researching for 15 minutes every night by reading Smart mobs by Howard Rheingold
3. Solving issues, such as use of speakers, contacting stadshallen.

Flashmob sign up sheets!

Johanna and I have put up posters around the school area to get more people to join the flashmob, and we have hooked up a couple of people :)

To-do-list

1. Hang out posters in hallways. November 26th DONE! Got 5 new participants from MYP 4 
2. Decide date for meeting. November 28th DONE: 11th of December, 12 am @stadsparken
3. Reach a number 50 participants December 1st DONE (many people are not sure yet, and many people have friends that they want to bring, and they are not part of the group)

UPDATE 17/12

Our facebook-Group (42 participants)

Facebook-event (44 participants)

4. Decide and send out message to 6 people who will start the dance on the second turn after me and Johanna. And 6 other people to start third turn. People in mind:
Line, Victor, Arianna, Sonia, Ottie      ? December 5th - DONE! 6 people: Line, Ingrid, Henrik, Emilia, Sara, and Filippa
5. Email Mats at Stadshallen to ask for permission to borrow outlet for our speakers. December 1st DONE!

The email sent to Mats

Smart Mob book received!

Email from Anna our librarian, saying that she received the book and that we can come pick it up.